Never mind the ethics of obliviation, my main problem with the film was that it just wasn't good story-telling. For example, we know the protagonist likes beasties, but are we ever given a clue as to why? Maybe a childhood scene of him playing with the beasties, for example? No, it's just his Thing...

My husband (and anthropologist) It doesn't seem ethically sound when your husband is also your anthropologist.. I've been trying to find reviews or impressions by actual Pacific Islanders about the movie, unfortunately most of what I'm finding is what people thought about it before it came out, spe...

According to wikipedia body temperature does increase after eating. It doesn't say by how much but if you run a trial you'll find out if it's measurable. If I were you I'd measure my own temperature before and after each meal from now on to see what you can expect as a result. Get some family member...

Imagine someone coming up to you at a bar and flirting with you, and you start dating, and it goes wonderfully, everything they say is charming, you have so much stuff in common, you've never had a spark like you had with that person. And then you find out it's not because they're magically (no pun...

Spoilered for non serious business. What I'm trying to underline here is that my family is not operating in the same America that I am. Are you saying your parents live in House of Cards' America? Here's a captain awkward post/letter/article? about boundaries that might apply to your situati...

The implications of memory modification (and mind control) are terrible in general and it would be interesting to see them adressed in-universe. The use of memory modification as damage control after magical incedents doesn't bother me too much though. When a dragon in London becomes a carcrash no '...

Loved this line I read elsewhere: "I have to congratulate the USA for sticking it to the elite by voting for a man with his own Boeing 757." Odd sentiment. Both candidates were wealthy. One was loved by the establishment, one was despised by the establishment. Seems voting for the one des...

I picked up a neat party game in Essen: "Fake artist goes to New York". It's a drawing game described as spyfall meets pictionary. One player, the curator, commissions a painting from all the other players (artists). The theme of the painting is declared to all players, the subject is secr...

I've seen this being hyped around the internet: cheap carbon dioxide to ethanol reaction . It sounds quite promising. Given the technique’s reliance on low-cost materials and an ability to operate at room temperature in water, the researchers believe the approach could be scaled up for industrially ...

Ah that is it thank you. Yeah I find it hard to google for books sometimes, I mean that he is some lizard like humanoid is the most useful identifying feature but what do you google for? (IBM should just use watson to build a book database so that it can answer such questions!) What did it in the e...

But the question still stands... not necessarily for you to answer, but as a point of discussion. Even the wild conspiracy theorists that know "it's all a lie" had to figure this out somehow... yet I have yet to get a good answer to "How do you decide that this source of information ...

Right, but the quoted post was talking about marine life downstream from major cities, so I was assuming he was talking about coastal cities on rivers. Maybe he meant aquatic life. TIL the difference between aquatic and marine. On the other hand, these fish are literally living in (treated) sewage,...

I am halfway through the show and I like it a lot so far but its starting to lose steam a little. I think it might be the lack of a powerful villian or credible threat- so far Luke Cage seems to regard his opposition with more annoyance than real concern. The other thing that I was really disappoin...

I've been playing this for a while now and I feel more skilled than I was at the beginning. I haven't touched the difficulty settings though. If I lose a drone now it's because I made a mistake or I was too reckless. If anything it feels relatively easy now to avoid disaster.

Interesting thought indeed. I found this article about environmental impact of medicine. Statins are mentioned but I'm not a professional so I can't further identify them from the text or this list: Pharmaceuticals that have been identified as a priority for further study Human Aminophylline, Beclam...

Player name: Plytho Group Name: Harvesters of the sea Aspects: Food production+++, Exploration+, Craftsmanship+ + , Transport+ Description: The harvesters of the sea control all fishing and other sea-related harvesting activities, up to and including the busy fishmarket. Fishing includes mostly coa...

I've finished watching now, here are my thoughts: Full season spoilers ahead: I really enjoyed the show and I felt it worked well until the death of Cottonmouth. He was a great character, strongly connected to the neighborhood and kind of likeable. I was far less interested in Diamondback. His motiv...